Description
- Notes:
- At head of title: At the General Assembly of the Governor and Company of the English Colony of Rhode-Island and Providence-Plantations, in New-England, in America; begun and held at Newport, within and for the said Colony, on the second Monday in June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and sixty-seven, and seventh of the reign of his most sacred Majesty, George the Third, by the grace of God, King of Great-Britain, and so forth.
- At end of text: A true copy, witness.
- Names members of committee to count male inhabitants for poll tax and assess all land and property, including slaves, and orders publication in Newport Mercury and Providence gazette.
- Alden cites printer's bill in Rhode Island state archives.
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Citation
Rhode Island,
"An Act for taking a just estimate of the rateable estates in this Colony:
in order that the rates and taxes may be equally assessed upon the inhabitants
"
(1767).
Brown Olio.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:262892/